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Interesting development on Google Play: As of November 13, 2023, anyone who opens a new indie account must have at least 20 testers before their app has a chance of being published in the store, according to the latest policy change. Alternatively, one can register a business, which then requires a D-U-N-S number. The requirement of 20 testers is likely quite high, particularly for hobby developers, even though communities are already forming and existing developer forums pledge to support one another. ...

As a developer, you often face the challenge of having to generate or integrate an avatar image, e.g., for the profile. There are several ways to do this: You can offer the user an upload option and then save the profile picture. A user’s email can be matched against services such as gravatar.com. It is checked whether a profile picture is stored in the authentication service used. However, if the user does not want to upload a picture, or no picture can be assigned to the user online, it is now expected that the profile picture will be replaced by a placeholder with the initials. Here we have 2 options: ...